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Tamerlane's Captive Miners and the Silver That Fueled an Empire
In this episode of Tamerlane: The Conqueror Who Tried to Rebuild the Mongol Legacy, Lucas and Luna explore a forgotten engine of Timur's conquests: the silver mines of Central Asia. After the Battle of Ankara in 1402, Tamerlane deported skilled miners from the Caucasus and Anatolia to the Pamir Mountains and the Zarafshan Valley, where they reopened ancient shafts and introduced new smelting techniques. The silver from these mines—minted into tankas and dirhams at mints in Samarkand, Bukhara, and Kesh—paid for the tumens that marched from Delhi to Damascus. Lucas explains how the Yassa…
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